Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm strengthens its ecosystem, brings economies of scale to the cloud, expansion to the edge
Nvidia is after a double bottom line in the AI chip market: Better performance and better economics. Arm's acquisition helps with the economies of scale in the data center and expands Nvidia's footprint to the edge
Read More →Open source observability marches on: New Relic and Grafana Labs partnership brings benefits to developers
The perfect observability storm with open source leading the way, and a partnership that makes sense
Read More →Data Lakehouse, meet fast queries and visualization: Databricks unveils Delta Engine, acquires Redash
Data warehouses alone don't cut it. Data lakes alone don't cut it either. So whether you call it data lakehouse or by any other name, you need the best of two worlds, says Databricks. A new query engine and a visualization layer are the next pieces in Databricks' puzzle.
Read More →Streamlit wants to revolutionize building machine learning and data science applications, scores $21 million Series A funding
Streamlit wants to be for data science what business intelligence tools have been for databases: A quick way to get to results, without bothering much with the details
Read More →Single point of control, database security as a service: jSonar gets $50 million funding from Goldman Sachs
Why would Goldman Sachs invest a hefty amount into a previously little known company working on something unsexy like database security?
Read More →Another globally distributed cloud native SQL database on the rise: Yugabyte Raises $30 million in Series B Funding
Your good old on-premise SQL database is in terminal decline. Being a pure-play open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL, while offering Apache Cassandra and GraphQL interfaces, is what you need, says Yugabyte.
Read More →AI chips in 2020: Nvidia and the challengers
Now that the dust from Nvidia's unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let's take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight
Read More →GoodData and Visa: A common data-driven future?
From user, to partner and investor. That's not a very common scenario for software vendors, especially if the user-cum-partner-investor is someone like Visa. GoodData is evolving more than its relationship with select users.
Read More →A Gmail for databases: CockroachDB aims for the top, stocks up with $86.6M new funding
Stay-at-home means more remote work and more online business globally. Global business online means a global database makes more sense, and Cockroach DB is making a play for a bigger piece of a growing pie
Read More →Optimizing hardware infrastructure with data and AI: Granulate scores $12 million Series A funding
How does boosting hardware performance between 20% and 80% sound? This is what startup Granulate promises.
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